Charming as always Josephus.
One doesn't need to believe in invisible beings to be alive.

I find Davidf to be one of the more enlightened posters on this forum.
At least he has a mind of his own...

Dear Josephus,

"The life of the body is the soul." is a statement without meaning. People make such statements under the illusion that they have meaning. On the 31th of this month if I am still alive I will be 90. It is a long life. As I approach the end I am trying to discard what is unnecessary.

We are born with fists clenched to grab at life. We die with open hands letting go of what we have grabbed. I feel you have grabbed at a lot of things. I feel that some of the things you have grabbed at are statements that people have made that you think have meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_MacDougall_(doctor) tells of a doctor who tried to measure the soul. There has never been any reliable indication that the soul exists. The fact that many people believe the soul exists is no proof that such an entity exists. Many people used to believe in the existence of Zeus or other deities. Now they follow Buddha, Jesus, God or other objects of devotion. There is no more reason to believe in God than there was to believe in Zeus.

I have discarded all religious belief and have tried to discard all other unnecessary concepts. I am trying to discard a lot of material things - books I will never read, clothing I will never wear again etc.

We are slaves to imaginary concepts and material objects. While we are alive some material objects are necessary, but we can rid ourselves of those that are not necessary. We can rid ourselves of belief in unprovable propositions and imaginary entities. The more we get rid of the freer we are.

davidf,
Persons do NOT have a soul, their life is their soul. Your 90 years of living is your soul life. At death the life [soul] leaves the body, all reasoning and motivation and values no longer exist in the mind. You seen to be believing we identify an imaginary non-entity as life and spirit. All those things that identify your life is your soul and spirit, your character, motivations, imagination and creativity, actions, ideas and wisdom, not some being called spirit or soul. Though you do not recognize it, you are soul and spirit, operating in a material body.

Dear Josephus,

No matter how many times you repeat nonsense it remains nonsense.

Josephus, who told you that nonsense?
Did you read it in a book written by other men who say they 'know' this?
Who told them?
There has never been any spoken or written words re this sort of made-up stuff from any invisible being as far as I know....only from humans.

I have watched many people die, and let me tell you they just stop breathing and their heart stops, and then....nothing.

You can believe your nonsense I can observe my nonsense. The impact of your having lived lives on. No person is an Island, they have impacted this planet forever. Their life is all recorded in light years in the Universe at least.